C. Ray Nagin

Michael J. Anderson was staking out the front entrance of a Washington-area Ritz-Carlton in 2005 when he saw something stunning even for a veteran FBI agent accustomed to brazen public corruption schemes.

With an undercover video camera rolling, U.S. Rep. William Jefferson got out of a car near the hotel's front entrance, popped the trunk and retrieved a leather briefcase stuffed with $100,000 that the popular Louisiana congressman thought was bribe money. The cash, which was later found wrapped in tin foil and hidden amid frozen pie crusts in Jefferson's freezer, was actually part of an elaborate FBI sting.

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